Proteas limited-overs captain Temba Bavuma said it wasn't an ideal situation not to have your best players available for a series because of the Indian Premier League. | Sport24news
The 26 March start of the IPL means Bavuma's Test skipper Dean Elgar will be shorn of the services of Kagiso Rabada, Lungi Ngidi, Marco Jansen, Rassie van der Dussen and Aiden Markram for the two-Test series against Bangladesh.
Bavuma wasn't opposed to players being away for IPL duty, but said lessons from previous years could have been taken into account when dealing with the matter, "Am I happy? Yes of course, but the situation isn't an ideal one and from someone who is not affected by this, I would have liked for this to be dealt with a lot earlier and with urgency.
"We could have learned from previous years, especially in the Pakistan series where a decision could have been made a little earlier by everyone involved."
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